Guest Contributor: Chirag Gupta
Area high school students are participating in local startup community events now more than ever these days and they are not just coming to observe. Over the past few years Dallas has seen several young entrepreneurs start successful businesses while still in...

Ready to take your bold ideas to new heights?
Run, don't walk, to the World In Flight Hackathon this weekend at The Study in Irving, Texas.The event is FREE; food, swag, and accommodations all be provided at no charge.
WHAT: A hackathon dedicated to discovering innovation in aviation....

Every Sunday, Ateanna creates a week’s view of some of the events happening across the region. I look forward to it as do many of you (thanks for the feedback!). This is different. This is a look at three events that will take place in...

Local Hack Day is an annual event run by Major League Hacking, an organization that supports competitive “hacking” at the high school and collegiate level. Major League Hacking was founded by Mike Swift and Jon Gottfried in 2013 and now has a major presence in...

Want to be part of changing the world with wearable technology? There are so many ways that wearables can improve our lives, starting with the people who protect us every day.
EMERGE, the new wearable technology accelerator from Tech Wildcatters is right around the corner, and...

The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon is coming to Dallas this May!
Originating in Silicon Valley, the hackathon aims to bring together "professionals from all parts of the built environment with technology developers and designers to create applications that affect how our real world is designed,...

The Code for the Kingdom hackathon is underway this weekend at the Addison Treehouse, and while a local hackathon isn't usually a source of controversy, this particular event has been a topic of debate in our community.
The event kicked off Friday, with a mission of bringing...

Denton's North Branch Library will be hosting "Up All Night," starting TOMORROW, starting at 5 pm. The event tomorrow is comprised of the Better Denton Hackathon and 24-Hour Comics Day.
The Better Denton Hackathon invites anyone with an idea to team up to develop and create throughout...

Leading travel tech provider, Sabre, is hosting one heck of a hackathon on August 1, and you're all invited!
The Sabre Dev Studio Hackathon is a competition open to developers in the US and Canada, and will be 24 hours dedicated to further innovate the travel...

Computer Visionaries 2014 will be held at the Dallas Entrepreneur Center on July 18-19, and we couldn't be more excited!
The event is sponsored by Microsoft, and is open to developers, designers, entrepreneurs and problem-solvers.
The group, Computer Vision - Dallas (CVD), has organized the event. Skip Howard,...

The UNT Innovation Greenhouse (shoutout to Nancy Hong who is a warrior for startups/entrepreneurs!) is hosting THE Big Data Hackathon at the end of this month, and you won't want to miss it.
The event will feature Lisbeth McNabb, CEO and founder of DigiWorksCorp, as the...

AT&T will be holding a hackathon at the AT&T Foundry in Plano this weekend focused around the " internet of things" and machine-to-machine concepts.
With over $10,000 in prizes, this is probably a free event that you want to check out!
Here are all the details or...

LeadingAge, an organization dedicated to helping improve the lives of the elderly, is putting on a hackathon during their annual meeting and expo happening at the Dallas Convention Center October 27th-30th.
Anyone interested in participating (and they are really encouraging college students to come out) has...

Pocketstop, a digital agency here in Dallas, is hosting a Wordpress hackathon on Friday, May 18th in an effort to find the next developer to join their growing team.
Here are the details:
This is a Wordpress Hackathon engineered to find the next developer for Pocketstop. It...

Don't forget the Dallas Big Data Micro Hackathon to be held at CoHabitat in uptown from 5-9pm on March 22nd. This is just hardcore coding. No speeches. Nothing else. Get lost with some Hadoop and Cassandra. Click here for more info.
reposted from Architectonic with permission:
Tuesday, March...